Picture "Everyday, Picnic II" (2022/23) (Unique piece)
Picture "Everyday, Picnic II" (2022/23) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | unframed | size 150 x 120 cm
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Picture "Everyday, Picnic II" (2022/23) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 2022/23, signed. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 150 x 120 cm.
About Nari Jo
Nari Jo (*1988, Gimje/South Korea ) works with abstract painting and pictographic representations in her art.
"In my painting, I want to depict wonders that have been forgotten. I see the preservation and condensation of childlike curiosity and the search for a primitive and at the same time spiritual aesthetic as the core concerns of my work as a painter."
In her work, Nari Jo focuses on expressions of joie de vivre, happiness and childhood and reflects on her upbringing in rural areas. However, it is not about the landscape itself, but about the feelings and thoughts that she associates with her homeland. Home here does not refer to a specific place, but to a world of emotions or an abstracted image of her memory.
Her distinctive visual style lies in the realm of figurative abstraction, as her paintings still have a figurative dimension. Although her art seems to exist in its own reality, symbolic forms lurk everywhere, working on a sensory level and evoking the sweet and whimsical moments of daily life.
Nari Jo received the Hegenbarth Scholarship in 2021.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art that has been personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolours, drawing, etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there exist the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a type of modern art, that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
In the history of arts, the starting point of this trend was the work "Les Meules" (1890/1891) by Claude Monet, in which for the first time a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.